Find lost children, MPs urge

The scale of the disappearances of black boys in London triggered an outcry from MPs today.

Ministers faced angry calls from backbenchers to trace the missing children.

A Commons motion signed by almost 40 MPs calls for urgent measures to protect migrant children, with a new register of those who enter the country.

The Westminster motion, tabled by London MP Diane Abbott, describes reports that African and Caribbean children are vanishing from London schools as "alarming".

It says the alleged disappearances of 300 boys aged between four and seven is "indicative of an escalation in child trafficking for subversive purposes" and calls on ministers to take "urgent measures" to find the missing children.

Ms Abbott said today: "We need to satisfy ourselves about what is happening to these children."